Buttigieg cannot overturn CU. That's a supreme court decision, not a congressionally passed law.

I don’t want to insult you with a civics lesson, but there are ways to challenge it. One obvious but unlikely way is by passing a Constitutional amendment. Otherwise, Congress can pass a law that would make its way to the Supreme Court for another challenge. Again, not extremely likely, but that’s still a policy position. Go ahead and respond to the rest that I listed.

And even if he could, Billionaires held massive away over our political before CU. While getting rid of CU would be good, it is not going to challenge the power of the elites on its own.

You’re moving the goalposts from literally one comment ago. Your claim was that none of Pete’s policy positions aim to shift power away from the elites. Now you claim that this one position wouldn’t completely remove the influence of the elites. How can I believe you’re arguing in good faith when you change your argument over literally two comments? And none of the candidates can completely get rid of rich influence in politics, so if that’s your purity test, I don’t know what to tell you.

What would challenge the power of the elites is to get all private money out of politics. Last week when asked about this Buttigieg gave a curt and direct answer: he said no.

I thought that video clip was from two weeks ago, but you may be right. The question was specifically if Pete would stop having closed-door fundraisers and taking money from billionaires. Pete said no. He has already announced that he is no longer holding closed-door fundraisers (which, FYI, Bernie and Warren have both held prior to this cycle), and the simple fact is that a billionaire is legally entitled to donate up to $2600, just like you or me.

Are any of the candidates calling for full public financing of elections? Bernie loves to brag about his individual donations, but those are anti-democratic. It’s simply not fair that I get a bigger voice in politics than someone who’s living paycheck-to-paycheck who can’t donate hundreds to their preferred candidate. Do you condemn Bernie for accepting and boasting about these donations?

Another policy that would challenge the power of the elites is a wealth tax. Buttigieg had made his strident opposition to this tax clear and public.

That’s a complicated issue, and we might simply disagree on it. First, the wealth tax may be unconstitutional, and it will certainly face a lengthy legal battle. The current Supreme Court leans conservative, and there’s a notable chance that the wealth tax would be ruled unconstitutional (look up the direct tax clause). Second, the wealth tax may not be an effective way to raise funds for a variety of reasons, including the difficulty evaluating someone’s wealth. Several European countries tried and abandoned a wealth tax. Again, I understand your position here, and I think it’s completely reasonable to support a wealth tax even if I don’t.

Another policy that would challenge the power of elites to to take seats on the boards of large companies and hand them to workers. Buttigieg has not supported this idea.

Pete has some pretty strong pro-union positions. I recommend you take a look at his website. I’m not sure if he has specifically called for what you say here, but it’s wrong to say he doesn’t want to strengthen unions.

Another policy that would challenge the elites is drastic cuts to military spending and cuts to the weapons manufactures. When asked at the debate if he would cut military spending Buttigieg demured.

Yeah, this is one area I wish Pete was a little stronger in. I really like his foreign policy generally, but our military spending is insane, and that needs to be among the top priorities.

Again, though, your claim is that none of Pete’s positions challenge the power of the elites, so the burden isn’t on me to show that he supports literally every progressive policy. There’s no candidate who is 100% as progressive as possible. Bernie is relatively conservative on firearms, for example.

I could go on and on, but I'll stop here.the bottom line is that elites are not stupid. They support politicians that support them. That's how they maintain their status as elites.

Again, that’s simply not supported by Pete’s actual policy positions or rhetoric. I still haven’t seen any evidence that Pete’s positions have been informed by any donations. Please provide that or admit you have no such evidence.